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Translation by Martin Luther (1483 - 1546)

Super flumina Babylonis illic
Language: Latin 
1 [Psalmus David, Jeremiæ.]
  Super flumina Babylonis illic
  sedimus et flevimus, cum recordaremur Sion.
2 In salicibus in medio ejus suspendimus organa nostra:
3 quia illic interrogaverunt nos, 
  qui captivos duxerunt nos, verba cantionum;
  et qui abduxerunt nos: Hymnum cantate nobis de canticis Sion.
4 Quomodo cantabimus canticum Domini in terra aliena?
5 Si oblitus fuero tui, Jerusalem, oblivioni detur dextera mea.
6 Adhæreat lingua mea faucibus meis, si non meminero tui; 
  si non proposuero Jerusalem in principio lætitiæ meæ.
7 Memor esto, Domine, filiorum Edom, in die Jerusalem:
  qui dicunt: Exinanite, exinanite usque ad fundamentum in ea.
8 Filia Babylonis misera! beatus qui retribuet tibi
  retributionem tuam quam retribuisti nobis.
9 Beatus qui tenebit, et allidet parvulos tuos ad petram.

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Psalm 136 (137)
Language: German (Deutsch)  after the Latin 
Our translations:  FRE
1 An den Wassern zu Babel sassen wir und weineten, 
  wann wir an Zion gedachten.
2 Unsre Harfen hingen wir an die Weiden, die drinnen sind.
3 Denn daselbst hiessen uns singen, die uns gefangen hielten, 
  und in unserm Heulen fröhlich sein: "Lieber, singet uns ein Lied von Zion!"
4 Wie sollten wir des Herren Lied singen in fremden Landen?
5 Vergess ich dein, Jerusalem, so werde meiner Rechten vergessen.
6 Meine Zunge muss an meinem Gaumen kleben, wo ich dein nicht gedenke,
  wo ich nicht lass Jerusalem mein' höchste Freude sein!
7 Herr, gedenke der Kinder Edom am Tage Jerusalem, die da sagen: 
  "Rein ab, rein ab bis auf den Boden!"
8 Du verstörete Tochter Babel, wohl dem, 
  der dir vergelte, wie du uns getan hast!
9 Wohl dem, der deine junge Kinder nimmet und zuschmettert sie an den Stein!

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